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Guru Dutt (born Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone; 9 July 1925 – 10 October 1964; also known as Gurudatta Padukone) was an Indian film actor, director, producer, choreographer, and writer.
Guru Dutt: An Unfinished Story is a 2021 Indian biographical book written by Yasser Usman, chronicling the life and career of the Indian actor and filmmaker Guru Dutt.It describes Dutt's birth in Panambur in 1925, his 18-year-long film career, his marriage to the playback singer Geeta Dutt, with whom he had three children, and his death in 1964.
The Guru Dutt team was a group of filmmakers formed by Guru Dutt for some of his works. [1] Some well-known films that the team created include Chaudhvin Ka Chand , Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam , Kaagaz Ke Phool , and Pyaasa .
Ten Years with Guru Dutt is a biography of the filmmaker Guru Dutt that is based on journalist Sathya Saran's conversations with the screenwriter Abrar Alvi. The book has 23 chapters, whose titles are taken from well-known lines in Dutt's films' songs. The book is in first-person narrative and is interspersed with Saran's commentary. The book ...
Guru Dutt and his later movies, including Pyaasa, have a large cult following, particularly in France, Germany, South Asia and parts of East Asia (Japan, Singapore, etc). It was a huge commercial success during its 1984 French Premiere, something Guru Dutt never witnessed during his lifetime.
In Search of Guru Dutt is a 1989 three-part documentary film on the life and work of Indian actor, writer, director and producer of Hindi films Guru Dutt to mark his 25th death anniversary. This documentary is a three-part tribute to director Guru Dutt, who died in 1964 at the age of 39.
It also discusses his marriage in 1953 to the playback singer Geeta Dutt, with whom he had three children, and his suicidal death on 10 October 1964. The book was the British author and television documentary producer Nasreen Munni Kabir's second work about Dutt, after a documentary titled In Search of Guru Dutt (1989). Since the late 1970s ...
Guru Dutt: A Tragedy in Three Acts is a book by Arun Khopkar, analysing the Indian actor and filmmaker Guru Dutt's work. It was originally released by Granthali in Marathi as Guru Dutt: Teen Anki Shokantika in 1985, and its English version, translated by Shanta Gokhale, was did so Penguin Books on 15 October 2012.